The 2016 Agency Elite Award finalists are listed below. The winners will be announced at the Oct. 19 luncheon in New York, as will the winners of PR News' 2016 Platinum PR Awards.

The 2016 Platinum PR/Agency Elite Awards luncheon will be co-hosted by comedian Aparna Nancherla, profiled in the New York Times recently on the eve of her tour supporting her new album on Tig Notary’s Bentzen Ball Records label and in anticipation of her upcoming Comedy Central special. Nancherla has also appeared on "Inside Amy Schumer,” “Love," "Last Comic Standing” and “I Love the 2000’s.”

Sharing co-hosting duties will be "Orange Is the New Black" cast member Catherine Curtin; she also has a role in the HBO's much-buzzed-about upcoming series "Insecure."